Chapter 26: The Elixir
The ancients believed that this world is alive, and that all things in the whole world have their own birth, old age, sickness and death, joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and they breathe at their own rhythm and think with their own logic. These things are well known to us, but they secretly have their own unique magic.
In particular, the ancients believed that language has an incomparable magical power, and that what is said will become the truth, and what is written on paper is even more powerful, and it is the supreme magic weapon against evil. There are mantras and mantras in both Eastern and Western religions, and the written talismans are even more wonderful. The folk have endless taboos of speaking, which are all mantras. And the most important mantra is the name!
The moment Liu Dongxi fell, I thought that I had cursed him by name, and the so-called fallacy might be like this.
However, Liu Dongxi did not become an elixir.
After he broke away from the cliff, he suddenly floated in the air, just like the stone that flew in the air before. He looked around him quizzically, and then looked up at me with a look of disbelief on his face.
It's strange to me that if people are not affected by gravity here, then my fingers and feet can clearly bear the weight of my body, but to say that gravity still works, then what is the matter?
Liu Dongxi shouted: "You can really fly here, you come and try it." ”
I saw that Liu was floating there, and there seemed to be nothing unusual, so it was very convenient to get to the middle platform. I let go of one hand and one foot, and there was still no sign of hanging in the air, to say that it was all loosened at once, although there was an example of Liu Shixi in front of me, but I didn't dare. I withdrew one foot, stood as firm as I could, and slowly let go of my hands, still on the gap, with my feet slightly withdrawn.
I suddenly felt a sense of relief, my ears were clouded, and the weight of my body was completely gone. I pushed a handful of rock walls with my hands and wanted to float into the air. Unexpectedly, as soon as my hand touched the rock wall, my body sank downward, and I hurriedly tried to hold on to the rock wall, but the more chaotic I became, the busier I became, and I fell all the way down the rock wall.
When passing by Liu Shixi, he reached out and wanted to grab me, but I fell down with a piece, I reached out and grabbed on the rock wall, and was cut through countless openings, Liu Shixi never let go and shouted, "Let go, you let go." "My mind was completely blank at this time, and when I heard it, I hurriedly did it, only to feel that my brain was buzzing, and Liu and I were hanging in the air.
The two of us looked at each other, completely unclear about the situation, why the stone fell when we touched it, even though it was already floating in the air.
Liu Dongxi said, "Could it be that these are all magnets? ”
I immediately felt a little funny, not to mention whether the magnet could attract our two lumps of meat, and even if it could, it wouldn't explain the situation just now. However, he also reminded me that we are probably in a huge magnetic field, in which we float like a maglev train, and touching a stone is like connecting to a ground wire, instantly emptying our current and returning to the control of gravity.
I think this may be the case, but I feel that there are many loopholes in this set of explanations, so I simply explained it to Liu Dongxi, and I guess he didn't understand it either. I thought to myself, I haven't figured it out yet! How can I have the spirit to explain it to you! So he changed the subject and asked him, "Where are we going first?" ”
Liu Dongxi pointed to the largest platform and said, "Naturally, I went to see that tree!" ”
I looked in the direction he was pointing, and the tree had grown from below, and this huge platform was piercing the tree, and the dark green trunk was deepening in color, extending in an invisible direction. Just now, the angle of view was relatively high, and the entire tree trunk was blocked by the platform, and then I saw that the whole group of platforms were moving around the tree.
We were amazed to see it, such a huge tree could not be believed to be a living creature, compared to what we saw along the way, this is a real miracle!
The tree didn't stop us from moving, and after a brief moment of admiration we moved on.
Movement is not a problem, and the force of a hard push on the rock wall is enough to overcome gravity and start gliding through the air. Gliding in the air like this is an experience I have never experienced, it feels very fun, and I joked that I didn't expect to be able to reach escape speed with a light jump now, and Liu Shishi didn't understand, and I didn't explain, so I enjoyed myself.
But we couldn't control the direction of this movement, so we had to take a break on a platform, and move closer to the tree one by one, which was kind of searching all the way.
Each platform looks much the same, essentially a smooth plane made of an unknown grayish-white rock of irregular shape. There are still some ruins on the plane, as if houses were once built. The more I look at it, the more I know, it seems that I have really found the right place, look at these ruins, there must have been people living here, and the Danding mentioned in the notes must be among these platforms.
The two of us searched on the platform and jumped to another platform, although these platforms are moving, but one is that the platform moves very slowly, and the other we choose is a larger platform that is more tolerant of faults, so there is no danger along the way.
Liu Dongxi looked all the way, his face was not very good, I saw it by chance, and I felt strange in my heart, it was said that the goal was in front of me, I should be a little excited, why did I look very disappointed? I think since I came to this place, Liu Shi's performance has been very abnormal, just now he fell, with his skills, it must not be an accidental miss, what is he hiding from me? I searched in my mind to find out what he was hiding from me. At this time, I was suspicious of Liu Shi, but I didn't know what to do? Is it to wait and see, or to say a word? I don't have a bottom in my heart.
At this time, we are on a platform of about 100 square meters, there is a half low wall on one edge of this platform, and there is a huge stone pier in the middle, about more than two meters in diameter, carved with thunder patterns, it looks like a relic of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, I don't know what it is for.
I recalled Liu Dongxi's various performances after coming in, made up my mind, stood still in front of this stone pier, and shouted Liu Dongxi.
Liu Dongxi walked in front of me, turned around and asked me, "Brother An, what's the matter?" ”
I saw that he was preoccupied, and asked him bluntly, "What are you hiding from me?" ”
Liu Dongxi's face was as usual: "No, how can you say that?" ”
"Don't pretend, you must have something to hide from me, we both suffered a lot along the way, and almost died on the road, everyone knows how you and I are, it's a bit unauthentic for you to hide it from me now." I looked at him and saw that he was still calm, and then persuaded him, "At this point, it is impossible for me not to help you, if you tell me the truth, I should be prepared, otherwise I will die in vain, and you will harm you." ”
Liu Shifu rolled his eyes and looked at me, and I stepped back slightly, secretly wary of him turning his face and making a move. He looked at me like that for a while, and sighed as if he had made up his mind, and said, "Brother An, I didn't mean to hide this matter from you, after all, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and this matter is very important, not a friend in distress, I don't dare to believe you." ”
I breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that this was not a friend in distress, so I didn't talk to me and waited for the following.
"Actually, I didn't lie to you anything, the story I told you is true, and I did come to get medicine for my father's treatment, I just concealed the name of the pill."
I inexplicably felt a little funny, "What's there to hide from the name of the pill?" Could it be that it is still the legendary golden pill? ”
"The name of that elixir is very ordinary, and there is no specific name mentioned in the notes, just called it an elixir."
I remembered that when Liu fell down before, I did break the word elixir. I couldn't help but laugh in my heart, Liu Shixin probably heard me call me to break, thinking that I knew his little secret, so he was so frightened that he fell down.
I said, "What about the elixir?" You say that the effect of that elixir is not an exaggeration! ”
Liu Dongxi smiled bitterly: "I really changed the words of this effect, and the note said 'serve eternal life'!" ”
The experience of analyzing the words and sentences of the notes and finding this place had a great impact on me. I couldn't help but start analyzing the words again. The term "eternal life" is also very strange, there are very few words about immortality in the ancient texts I came into contact with, and it is generally "immortality", which is much worse than the strength of immortality. Liu Ranqing has been robbing tombs all year round, these immortal and other strange things of the ancients have seen a lot, and they should have been immune a long time ago, can he emphasize the effect so exaggerated and seriously in his notes, is it true?
I asked Liu Shixi: "Liu Ranqing saw it in bamboo slips at that time, or did he try it himself?" ”
Liu Dongxi's face was unhappy, but he didn't care about my disrespect for his ancestors, and said, "I don't know, it's not mentioned in the notes." ”